Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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13 4 Tess of the d’Urbervilles tion have caused her to despair? No, she would have taken it calmly, and found pleasure therein. ...

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138 Tess of the d’Urbervilles it before the parson; and thus the girl set about baptizing her child. Her figure looked singularl ...

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140 Tess of the d’Urbervilles the morning that fragile soldier and servant breathed his last, and when the other children awoke ...